Music Swap

Earlier this year, I participated in my very first music swap over at Metafilter, which was a fun experience. Basically, you get randomly assigned to a group of 6 people, and then you make a mixed CD and send copies of it out to the other people in the group. Ideally, you should then get 5 mixed CDs back from the others. I was in a good group, so I got all mine from the others. There were some really fun and interesting music on those CDs, including some that I really, really liked.

Well, I figured that I should get some benefit of my work on the mixed CD I made for this music swap, so I decided to post it here. The mix CD that I made was based on some of the music I’ve been listening to lately, with some random stuff thrown in for fun. I called it “Strings & Beyond“, and the idea was to take the listener on a journey from pop music using a lot of strings (i.e. cellos/violins/etc.), through a sequence covering primarily piano, voice, guitar, drums, and through to electronica. Each track also had to have a nice-sounding transition from one to the next.

Below are images of the cover and back of the CD, and then a flash interface for listening to all the music on the mixed CD. I’m not linking directly to the mp3 files themselves, sorry. (Although you can find them easily if you know where to look…)